Hifone is a free, open-source, self-hosted forum software based on the Laravel PHP Framework.
This package is currently in (very-)alpha stage, so all of the following features may or may not work yet. However, feel free to post issues and features requests here . We will try to fix and improve the package as fast as we can based on your help!
- Fast and simple
- Beautiful and responsive
- Roles & Permissions
- Markdown & Emoj
- Image upload
- Avatars
- Notifications
- RSS Feeds
- Localization: language files, time zone and UTF-8 support
There are a few things that you will need to have set up in order to run Gitamin:
- A web server: Nginx, Apache (with mod_rewrite), or Lighttpd
- PHP 5.6.4+ with the following extensions: mbstring, pdo_mysql
- MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Composer
By default Hifone comes with a .env.example file. You'll need to rename this file to just .env regardless of what environment you're working on.
If you're using SQLite then your .env file should not contain a DB_HOST key. You'll also need to touch ./database/hifone.sqlite and give it the required permissions.
git clone https://github.com/Hifone/Hifone
cd Hifone
composer install --no-dev -o
cp .env.example .env
vi .env # write database settings
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
php artisan config:cacheOnce cloned to your local machine, you'll need some demo data! Simply run php artisan hifone:seed to get the demo installation on the go.
After installing Hifone, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Hifone will not run.
These extra dependencies are required to develop Hifone:
- Node.js
- Bower
- Gulp
npm install
bower install
gulpIf you're making a lot of changes, you'll find that running gulp watch will really help you out!
Hifone is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license